Taissa Farmiga Quotes

I don't have much to compare it to because I really didn't know much about theater. After I signed on, I started reading a lot of Sam Shepard plays just to brush up on my history and do some research. What's great is that Sam's been here and he's been in rehearsals with us. Sometimes you don't even notice him come in; he's just sitting there in the theater seats watching you.

For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.

When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of books in his dressing room. I was offstage a lot, so I would go read in his room. He was reading a four-part series on the Byzantine Empire by Alexander A. Vasiliev. I read two of those during the run of the play.

I would say I've actually done a lot more comedy than I've done drama. It's weird the way that worked out, because when I came out of theater school I took myself way too seriously, so it's kind of ironic that I ended up sort of going down the comedy path.

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.

I got fired from being a lunch-shift bartender because I had a reading of a play.

My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.

That's one thing I like to do before going in for a read - doing research once I actually have been granted the role - is to look up people's names.

I like to consume information. I like to learn.

It's always important to read, to know something about this world, so I try to learn, to know, to see what I can learn for myself. Be it from books, TV or the Internet, I try to know what happened in the world.

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

I decided to have a regular childhood and not pursue [acting] until I left school, although I wrote plays, directed plays, and got involved in theatre at school. When I left school I decided that's that I was going to pursue and gave it a crack.

I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights.

School plays are fine. Theater in school is fine.

If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading.

I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.

I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.

I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it.

I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.

I used to do plays and some television commercials when I was younger. I guess my mom's being an actress got me interested in that, but music definitely took its place.

I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do.

I love theatre - it's where I started - and I've directed a play myself. I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

I've been acting for years and years, at prep school - school plays, that kind of thing. That was always very high on my agenda. I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.

I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.